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Comment Re:Global Warming is Hitting Florida Hard (Score 1) 120

Ah, so if a state government cannot solve a global problem, they should just stick there with their thumbs up their ass and do nothing?

I don't believe this and stated nothing of the sort. Where is this coming from? My remarks were mostly about what Florida can do to mitigate impacts it faces not asses, thumbs and doing nothing. I even expressed my opposition to the legislation yet apparently that didn't register.

Collectively solving any problem becomes impossible with that sort of reasoning. Do you work for la Presidenta? That's his sort of "reasoning".

People love to enumerate perils of climate change and engage in endless debates with deniers. Yet when it comes to states enacting serious policy or even discussing policy proposals to address problems the lack of dedication and seriousness speaks for itself.

Comment Re:Global Warming is Hitting Florida Hard (Score 1) 120

I've long had a rule of thumb, that people who do not know what the word "devolve" means should never be taken seriously on anything of substance. It saves a lot of time. You are a case in point.

Next time check the dictionary before embarrassing yourself.

"to degenerate through a gradual change or evolution"
https://www.merriam-webster.co...

Comment reddit sucks (Score 1) 67

I can't stand Reddit UX is horrendous always showing tiny amounts of data always requiring you to expand expand expand drives me absolutely nuts. Old is the only thing that made it usable. Governance is far worse... the whole site is a series of disjointed echochambers enforced by Nazi moderation. Really sad to see sites like Reddit eating so much of the Internet.

The other day was searching for something on a mobile which I rarely do and a nag came up demanding I install the reddit app... you couldn't dismiss it the best you could do was reload the page and read for a few moments before it came back.

There have been an increasing number of annoying popups saying the same thing and having to continuously push the I'm 18 button is beyond annoying. What is the point of needlessly harrasing people with this garbage? Old was the only refuge from bullshit and now even that is going away... I don't get what they hope to gain. Hopefully reddit is the new myspace.

Comment Risky Business (Score 4, Interesting) 67

Reddit isn't wrong about bots but odds are what they really want is your identity. That earns money.

The trouble is people in Saudi Arabia will use old. to read about liberation topics or people in the US will read about drug topics, or whatever the mala prohibita are that will land you in prison for things that are perfectly legal in other jurisdictions.

Even people with accounts who read other subs logged in.

"Just create a new anonymous account" is what people will say who don't understand how identity correlation works. Sure there are ways that 0.0000001% of the population can manage securely, but that's not how this will go down.

The UK just arrested an American attorney who was critical of UK politics and they have multiple people in prison for clicking 'Like'. If you think they won't arrest somebody for reading the wrong sub, give it a few months.

Also, don't connect through Heathrow ever again.

Comment Re:Color me surprised... (Score 1) 202

Actually, if you zoom in, it has often been periods of chronic unemployment before the work came back, along with removing people from the labour market.
1st industrial revolution, 70 years, 3 generations of chronic unemployment. Saving grace, massive emigration to the new world where land was plentiful.
2nd industrial revolution, children taken out of the work force and eventually put in school, a trend that continues. The stay at home wife/homemaker. shorter work week.
Today, what percentage of the population works? The young spending years getting educated, the old and disabled pensioned off. And so on.

Comment Now do ... (Score 1) 106

... thunderstorms. Much higher overpressure than high altitude sonic booms. We used to have an occasional XB-70 test flight pass over Seattle. No big deal. Of course, they usually operated near or above FL600.

Tests during that decade, including the Oklahoma City sonic boom experiments, found repeated booms broke windows, damaged property and generated thousands of public complaints.

Not so many complaints until grifters tried to collect compensation for thunderstorm damage. The FAA just denied the claims and they got pissed.

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